Instrument-board.



J. E. GENN.-'

INSTRUMENT BOARD.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 6,1918.

Patented Apr. 15, 191 9.

Mam:

UNITD STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN E. GEN N, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, .ASSIGNOIR. TO STEWART-WARNER SPEEDOMETER CORPORATION, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF VIRGINIA.

INSTRUMENT-BOARD.

Application filed Apri16,1918. Serial No. 226,995.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J OHN E. GENN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and the State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Instrument-Boards, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part thereof.

The purpose of this invention is to provide an instrument board and means for readily securing the same to a vehicle body not so equipped. The invention consists in the features of such board and securing means hereinafter described and shown in the drawings as indicated by the claims.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a face view of an instrument board embodying this invention, showing also certain parts of the vehicle body with which it is associated.

Fig. 2 is a detail section taken as indicated at line 22 on Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a side elevation with respect to the vehicle body showing the board in end elevation and partly in section, and illustrating a form of securing means different from that shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

Fig. 4 is a detail section with respect to the board at a vertical plane adjacent the steering column of the vehicle, illustrating a further modification of means for securing the board in position.

Fig. 5 is a detail section taken as indicated at line 55 on Fig. 4c.

The vehicle body to which this board is shown as applied includes side sills or panels, 1, surmounted by cowl sides or fittings, 2, which include upstanding brackets, 3, supporting a wind shield, 4. The instrument oard, 5, whose primary purpose is to support a speedometer, 6, or other instrument for information of the driver, is formed with end portions, 7 lodged upon the side sills 1 and overlapping rearwardly facing downwardly sloping curved surfaces afforded by inturned flanges, 2 of the cowl sides, 2, and resting against said surfaces, said end portions, 7, being preferably shaped at their under surfaces to conform to the rearwardly sloping curved surfaces of the cowl sides, 2, as indicated in Fig. 3. A very simple means of securement consists in clamping bolts, 8, shown in Figs. 1 and 2, fitted with specially Specification of Iietters'latent.

formed washers, 9, having tongues of reduced thickness, 10,0verlapping the inturned flanges of the cowl sides, 2, against which the end portions, 7 of the board, 5, rest. Additional firmness and neatness of appearance is provided by a groove, 11, in the upper edge of the board, embracing and accommodating the depending flange or edge, 12, of the cowl.

An alternative means of securement is illustrated in Fig. 3, as consisting in a stop pin, 13, driven obliquely but nearly vertically into the short sill or upper edge of the panel, 1, extending immediately rearward from the rear face of the cowl sides, 2, the

.lower edge of the board, 5, resting upon this short sill, the groove, 11, engaging the cowl edge, 12, and the pin, 13, preventing the lower edge of the board from slipping rearwardly along the sill. If preferred the board may be formed with a groove, 14, merely wide enough to accommodate the pin, 13, and permitting it to be driven entirely beyond the surface plane of the board, as shown in Fig. 3. In the particular vehicle body to which the board is shown as applied, it will be seen that the horizontal sill is very short although the line of the sill is continued in the top edge of the door, 15, immediately to the rear of the panel, 1. The sill is in all cases,however, long enough to provide lodgment for the edge of the instrument board, 5, which is all that is necessary with this means of securement, since the stop pin, 13, is accommodated in the same length of sill which provides said lodgment for the board.

A third mode of securement for the board is illustrated in Figs. 4 and 5, and consists in a clip secured to the steering column, 16, and comprising a band, 17 provided with a clamping bolt, 18, anda plate or lug, 19, overhanging the face of the board, 5.

I claim:

1. In combination with a vehicle body having a cowl with a depending edge extending transversely of the body and side sills in a plane below said edge, an instrument board lodged upon said sills with its upper edge engaging the depending cowl edge, and means positively stopping said board against slipping along said sills.

2. In combination with a vehicle body having a cowl with a depending edge extending transversely of the body, side sills in a plane below said edge, and cowl sides having rearwardly facingsurfaces sloping downwardly from said cowl edge to said sills-respectively,

an instrument board lodged upon said sills against said surfaces of the cowll sides with. its upper edge engaging the dependingi'edgeof said cowl, and means positively holding the said stopping means comprising; a.- stop pin inserted in each sill and projecting therefrom; proximate to a rearwardly facingsurface of'the board;

4. In the combination set forth in claim 8, the rearwardly facing surfacabeing the bolt 15 tomrof a groove formed o-acc0mmodate said pin below the principa face plane of the board;

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set myhand at Chicago, Illinois, this30th-day 20 f; Ma ch, 191.

' JOHN E. GENN.

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